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LACKADAISY

Definition: LACKADAISY

LACKADAISY

Adjective

1. Lackadaisical.

Interjection

1. An expression of languor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: LACKADAISY

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Lamentation	Interjection: heigh-ho! alas! alack! O dear! ah me! woe is me! lackadaisy! well a day! lack a day! alack a day! wellaway! alas the day! O tempora O mores! what a pity! miserabile dictu! O lud lud! too true!
Wonder	Interjection: lo, lo and behold! O! heyday! halloo! what! indeed! really! surely! humph! hem! good lack, good heavens, gad so! welladay! dear me! only think! lackadaisy! my stars, my goodness! gracious goodness! goodness gracious! mercy on us! heavens and earth! God bless me! bless us, bless my heart! odzookens! O gemini! adzooks! hoity-toity! strong! Heaven save the mark, bless the mark! can such things be! zounds! 'sdeath! what on earth, what in the world! who would have thought it!; (inexpectation); you don't say so! You're kidding!. No kidding? what do you say to that! nous verrons! how now! where am I?
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: LACKADAISY

Etymologies containing "LACKADAISY": lackadaisical. (references)

Anagrams: LACKADAISY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-d-i-k-l-s-y"
	-2 letters: calisaya, lackaday.
	-3 letters: skaldic.
	-4 letters: acidly, alaska, alcids, aliyas, alkyds, dalasi, dickys, sickly.
	-5 letters: acids, acidy, acyls, alack, alcid, alias, aliya, alkyd, asdic, asyla, cadis, caids, calks, casky, clads, clays, daily, daisy, dials, dicks, dicky, idyls, kadis, kails, lacks, laics, licks, sadly, salad, salic, sayid, scald, scaly, silky, skald, slack, slick, yacks.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-d-i-k-l-s-y"
	+5 letters: lackadaisically.
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Alternative Orthography: LACKADAISY

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 41 43 4B 41 44 41 49 53 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.. .- -.-. -.- .- -.. .- .. ... -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000001 01000011 01001011 01000001 01000100 01000001 01001001 01010011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#67 &#75 &#65 &#68 &#65 &#73 &#83 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 0043 004B 0041 0044 0041 0049 0053 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46353745353835435359

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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